Tag: Cha Cha
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Traveling dances vs. everything else
In social partner dancing, every dance style falls into one of these two categories: dances that travel the floor and dances that don’t. In all the traveling dances, dance partners seek to make a circuit around the perimeter of the dance floor. In the non-traveling dances (sometimes called “spot” dances), you stay in one general…
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What is salsa dancing?
The world of social dancing is full of terms that mean different things in different contexts. In the simplest and most direct meaning, “salsa dancing” is just dancing a social style called Salsa, or even more simplistic, dancing however you like to Salsa music. However, the concept of “salsa dancing,” as it actually plays out…
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What are the “ballroom dances”?
Want the short answer first? All of them. The ones you dance with a partner, of course. But yes, people who call themselves “ballroom dancers” stake a claim to ALL the social partner dances. That’s because people who do ballroom dancing as a hobby don’t put exclusions or limits on the number of dances that…
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What is ballroom dancing?
A guide for social dance enthusiasts… of dances other than ballroom. It’s pretty common for me to run into misconceptions about ballroom dancing when I talk to avid dancers who practice other social styles. Social dance hobbyists tend to end up in one “scene” or the other, depending on how they got started dancing. Did…
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